Above, from top: Faces at Behrman Public Relations’ post-Emmy party: photographer Karen French and model. Tafiq Akhir of Tafiq’s Physiques. At Organic Spa Magazine’s LA event: ISUN founder Bonnie Gulick. Chef Charles Chen. A Los Angeles Dodgers-headlining World Series aside, there’s no better place to spend an “Indian summer” night in southern California than on […]
The Secret to longevity: the Emmy lounge season begins
Elyse Glickman Although the Secret Room’s 2017 Emmy lounge was built on an intimate scale, Amy Boatwright, one half of the dynamic duo behind the Secret Room pre-award show lounges, was not going to allow any sad event—natural or otherwise—rain on her parade in bringing additional joy into the Emmy season. ‘After doing these […]
A sense of irreverence and youth at Celebrity Connected’s MTV Movie & TV Awards’ lounge
Just when you thought awards season was over, MTV pulls out their annual Movie & TV Awards for yet another night of star-gazing revelry with a rebellious, “young Hollywood” twist. As befitting any awards ceremony of note, Celebrity Connected gets the enthusiasm and adrenaline started early with their famed luxury gifting lounge. It could not […]
Little Golden day: TMG pens a new chapter on pre-Oscar fun
Elyse Glickman Main photo: Real housewife of Beverly Hills Eden Sassoon and Random House publicist Jillian Vandall. Above: Displays for Y2K Jewellers and Eufora. Many movie buffs could equate the Academy Awards as a golden door that opens once a year to “classic” status for the nominated films, screenplays, actors, and technical achievement. And while […]
Countdown to the Oscars: more beauty secrets are out at the Secret Room Red Carpet Luxury Lounge
Elyse Glickman Even with savvy Amy Boatwright surprising us every awards’ season with her magic in putting together the Secret Room Red Carpet Luxury Lounge, finding new beauty discoveries (and being treated to an amazing array of treatments ranging from Botox to hair services) never stops being exciting. As we’ve come to expect, the pampering […]
Hollywood-based journalists, bloggers, publicists and celebrities have spent the last two months canvassing the city to report on new products and services in beauty, fashion, lifestyle and travel getting rolled out, red carpet style. Oscar week, of course, is the grand finalé of a social season filled with teas, luncheons, ceremonies, and impromptu fashion happenings. […]
GBK puts the ‘lounge’ back into its Golden Globe Century Lounge
Elyse Glickman For GBK’s last several award show-outings, Gavin Keilly and his troupe went high volume and high production, complete with backdrops at such larger-than-life places as the W Hollywood. The sampling, gifting and revelry went on for days at these things (well, two, to be exact, but you get the idea, based on our […]
A Golden mine of beauty finds, as the Secret Room honours 74th Globes nominees
J. C. Olivera Among the celebrities attending: Rénée Oldstead, Amara Karan, Katie Leclerc. Anyone attending a Secret Room event during an award show weekend can count on discovering cutting-edge, kind-to-the-environment beauty products. However, the Secret Room Events honouring 74th Golden Globe Awards nominees and presenters focused almost entirely of skin care and wellness products made […]
Taste of the Emmys: Celebrity Connected’s crafty suite
Elyse Glickman Imagine being immersed into the Food Network world for a day—that’s what VIPs and select press experienced when they entered the Great Room of the W Hotel Hollywood when Celebrity Connected took it over and transformed it into an unusually crafty Emmy suite. The space was awash with samples, sips, and all […]
The Secret Room 2016 Oscar suite: the suite where everybody matters
There is something about W Hollywood Hotel that makes every VIP feel special, from the sweeping entrance to the red carpets that lead the way to the ballrooms and other public areas. How everybody else feels once they get to their destination is another matter, especially when it comes to pre-Oscar events. I am happy […]
